Alexander Calder

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Calder is the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents. Procedure: 1. Create a "map" to plan out your mobile. 2. Draw out shapes to create stencils. 3. Trace around your stencils onto aluminum or thin cardboard. 4. Lay out shapes to match your "map."5. Begin attaching shapes using wire from the bottom up. Project: Create a Mobile in the style of Alexander CalderIn short, although Calder has no desire to imitate anything—his one aim is to create chords and cadences of unknown movements—his mobiles are at once lyrical inventions, technical, almost mathematical combinations and the perceptible symbol of Nature: great elusive Nature, squandering pollen and abruptly causing a thousand butterflies to take wing…–Jean-Paul SartreStabilesYellow Disk, 1953, painted steelAlexander Calder1898 1976Works of Art"Circus"MobilesStabilesUntitledMobiles1976aluminum and steelSupplies: markers/pencilsaluminum/thin cardboardsculpture wireneedle nose pliersscissorsspray paintProcedure Continued: 6. Balance each object using the balance tool in the video. 7. Put your sculpture together piece by piece until you work your way to the top. 8. Paint each piece in a color scheme. "I think best in wire"Calder created face sculptures in wire and also his own jewelry. Inspired by MiroIn 1975 Calder was commissioned to paint this BMW.More Alexander Calder Artwork